New blog post: Dark Blue Weekly published

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/blog/dark-blue-weekly-published.php

By the way, 2 episodes are already published.

#darkblueweekly #darkblueraven #opensource #freesoftware #linux #bsd

New blog post: Dark Blue Weekly published

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/blog/dark-blue-weekly-published.php

By the way, 2 episodes are already published.

#darkblueweekly #darkblueraven #opensource #freesoftware #linux #bsd

A #ThankGNU! to Sally Gudbrandsen, Sandra Hatcher, and Shashank Sabniveesu for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

Join us in thanking the people and projects who make #FreeSoftware possible: https://u.fsf.org/4a3

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

Any self-employed or #freesoftware people want a buddy to kvetch to?

I've got a mildly cursed project (Mission:Libre) of my own. I'd love someone else who also has a troublesome project to gossip and commiserate with day-to-day. It's got to be more fun than going it alone, right?

#askfedi #help #smallbusiness

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@elhackernet/116020386435282592

Microsoft pasó de odiar a muerte a GNU/Linux a hacerle el mejor marketing de la historia.

#gnu #linux #freesoftware #gaming #foss #fediverse #mastodon #windows

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@elhackernet/116020386435282592

Microsoft pasó de odiar a muerte a GNU/Linux a hacerle el mejor marketing de la historia.

#gnu #linux #freesoftware #gaming #foss #fediverse #mastodon #windows

Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation.

We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.

We have some idea of how co-ops like Igalia do this, but we have a lot of differences (like being largely volunteer run and having very different goals) which leave us with a lot of unknowns.

To give an example of the kind of structure we're thinking of (by no means final, there hasn't been any broad agreement on a new structure yet):

We have the relevant pieces in place to form an assembly (everyone listed on https://postmarketos.org/team/ ) which could then democratically form teams and delegate responsibilities to them (e.g. finance/budget, technical policy-making, maintainers for various OS components).

The assembly would then also be responsible for deciding on focus areas and long term goals for the project (e.g. improving reliability, building a production-ready immutable version of the distro)

We could then form working groups to enable cross-team collaboration to move towards our specific goals.

Currently we lack a lot of understanding of the potential implications of something like this, how we can ensure the project doesn't get hijacked, that we don't drift too far from our mission statement, etc etc...

If you have a background in sociology and/or relevant experience from other projects then I would love to reach out and be able to discuss this in more detail!

#decentralization #opensource #freesoftware #foss

re- #introductions

Hi, everyone! We are an international worker-owned co-op.

We provide tech services with a commitment to privacy, transparency and sustainability. We have a strong commitment to libre software. You can read about our values on our website: https://autonomic.zone/blog/our-founding-principles/

We are especially interested in collaborating with co-ops and other collective organisations working for a better world.

https://autonomic.zone/

#coops #workercoops #tech #cotech #freesoftware

Want to help introduce #FreeSoftware to people in your community? Host a #LibreLocal: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Meetup-guide

Dear hivemind,

I'm looking for some survey form system that allows me to take a tablet somewhere without internet access, fill the form, and then the system syncs the answers to the backend when the tablet regains Internet access.

I know Redcap does it, but I was thinking of something more open?

#epidemiology #survey #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #SelfHosting

Dear hivemind,

I'm looking for some survey form system that allows me to take a tablet somewhere without internet access, fill the form, and then the system syncs the answers to the backend when the tablet regains Internet access.

I know Redcap does it, but I was thinking of something more open?

#epidemiology #survey #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #SelfHosting